Fat, smirking wasters in some O.T.C.,
Who just avoided the Conscription Act!)
“A strenuous woman-worker for the Cause”—
(Miss Trixie Toogood of the Gaiety,
Who helped to pauperize a few Belgiques
In the great cause of self-advertisement!) ...
Lord knows, the newspapers are bad enough;
But they’ve got some excuse—the censorship—
Helping to keep their readers’ spirits up—
Giving the public what it wants: (besides,